President Obama Greets Astronauts

President Obama greets crew members from the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Stateion in the Oval Office on Monday July 26th.

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White House Talks to Media: Jobs Bill & Education Reform

By Eliz Dowdy

To counter the misinformation that is whirling around the Obama Administration, senior level officials are meeting with the public and speaking with the media to get facts out to the public, and not factology (if you see it in print, it must be true).

Last week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Melody Barnes, and White House Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors Christina Romer met with the media via a conference call to discuss the jobs bill and education reform. They were joined by Commissioners of Education for Missouri, Chris Nicastro, and Florida, Eric Smith.

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NAACP Prepares for ‘One Nation’ March

By Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief

On the heels of a major win after the NAACP’s call for an end to the racist wing of the political Tea Party movement, the organization pushed forward this week with plans for a national march and rally in D.C. on October 2.
“We have to celebrate this victory,” NAACP President Ben Jealous said in a brief telephone interview with the NNPA News Service on Monday. “People are now depressed and they need signs of light and signs of strength. And the fact that we just got the Tea Party to push out an entire faction of the Tea Party because of racism is something that needs to be noted.”

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Legislation to End Racial Profiling

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 5748, End Racial Profiling Act of 2010 (ERPA). This critical legislation will eliminate law enforcement practices of singling out people for heightened scrutiny, based on their race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. As a product of years of extensive consultation with both the law enforcement and civil rights communities, this legislation represents the most comprehensive federal commitment to healing the rift caused by racial profiling and restoring public confidence in the criminal justice system at-large.

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Reaction to Resignation of Sherrod

JealousBen1203 NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous issued the following statement today after a careful investigation into the presentation of former USDA Official, Shirley Sherrod.

The NAACP has a zero tolerance policy against racial discrimination, whether practiced by blacks, whites, or any other group.

The NAACP also has long championed and embraced transformation by people who have moved beyond racial bias. Most notably, we have done so for late Alabama Governor George Wallace and late US Senator Robert Byrd--each a man who had associated with and supported white supremacists and their cause before embracing civil rights for all.

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